Mbappe is close to the Top 10 "Club 40" in the Champions League

Kylian Mbappe has the same number of goals as legends Eusebio and Filippo Inzaghi in the UEFA Champions League.

Kylian Mbappe is scoring 0.67 goals/match in the UEFA Champions League. Photo: PSG

In the early morning of March 6 (Vietnam time), Paris St Germain won 2-1 at Real Sociedad in the second leg of the 1/8 round of the UEFA Champions League. The French team won 4-1 overall, winning tickets to the quarterfinals after two consecutive seasons of early elimination.

On Anoeta Stadium, Kylian Mappe was the brightest star of the match with a double goal.

Thanks to that, the French player, the current World Cup runner-up, increased his number of goals in the UEFA Champions League to 46 in just 69 matches.

The 25-year-old striker has reached the number of goals of the late Portuguese legend, Eusebio, and former striker Filippo Inzaghi in the list of top scorers in the history of the tournament.

Mbappe, the player who announced that he will leave PSG at the end of the 2023-2024 season, needs 12 fewer matches than the former Juventus and AC Milan striker, but 4 more matches than Eusebio to reach this milestone.

Up to now, only 11 players have scored more goals than Mbappe in the C1 Cup/Champions League.

The possibility of Mbappe improving his position will still be high, because he is only 2 goals away from entering the Top 10, when Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andriy Shevchenko are the next targets that can be surpassed.

Also in the early morning of March 6, another factor in the “40 Club” in the Champions League, Thomas Muller, was on the electronic board, when he and Bayern Munich won 3-0 against Lazio.

At this time, the German player is only 2 goals behind Ruud van Nistelrooy.

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In addition to goal statistics, Mbappe’s other notable statistics include 26 assists after 69 matches in the Champions League. He has been involved in 41 goals (scored + assisted) this season – equal to Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane.

Besides, in the match against Real Sociedad, there was a time when Mbappe accelerated to run 100m in only 10.9 seconds, not less than record holder Usain Bolt – 9.58 seconds.

There are about 5,000 people in the world running 100m with a record of 10.9 seconds. Compared to female athletes, Mbappe ranks 63rd among the fastest 100m runners of all time.